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Towards an Environmental-First Assurance Framework - Part 2

In a previous post I introduced the scaffolding for a compliance assurance program that is capable of meeting the challenges of an...

Are You Effectively Managing the Impacts of Regulatory Change?

Organizations today face frequent and increasing regulatory changes across multiple jurisdictions, domains, and categories. It is these...

You Cannot Transfer Risk

I once worked for a company that had multiple programs to address concerns such as: process safety, occupational safety, loss prevention,...

Is Compliance Risk Reducible?

The primary purpose of risk management is to handle the possible effects of uncertainty against specified objectives. This handling...

Operational Readiness

Are your systems operational and capable to meet all your performance and outcome-based obligations this year? Companies that take...

You can't turn lagging into leading indicators no matter how hard you try

Lagging versus Leading Indicators The Challenge Counting near misses, incidents, defects, violations, and other non-conformance is of value and necessary as part of prescriptive: regulation, industry standards, and internal policies. However, when it comes to complying with performance and outcome-based commitments where the goal is to achieve zero fatalities, zero explosions, zero violations, and zero defects then you need a risk-based process that uses proactive actions inf

Where to add Proactive Processes

"Proactivity is a process that can be applied to any set of actions through anticipating, planning, and striving to have an impact." ...

Minimal Viable Performance (MVP)

Minimal Viable Compliance / Performance Outcomes are the effects of capabilities which means that if you want to advance your outcomes...

Moving Compliance to the Performance Zone

Compliance is often viewed as a cost of doing business. However, instead of viewing compliance only as an expense and something to...